When future swimmers go through the ILH record book and see Jasmine Mau’s name littered throughout, her marks are probably going to mean more to them than they do to her.
She didn’t even know how many records she broke on Saturday.
"I wasn’t focused on records today," Mau said. "The only thing I was focused on is doing well as a team together. We didn’t really think of the concept of winning, just going into this meet I was really excited. It is my last ILH championship, so I just wanted us to do well as a team."
As has happened in the pool throughout her career, Mau got what she wanted. The Punahou girls beat defending champion Pac-Five by two points, 74.50-72.50. ‘Iolani was third with 55. Punahou’s boys also won, scoring 81 points to Kamehameha’s 65 and ‘Iolani’s 38.
Of course, Mau did just fine individually, adding two records to the three she already held.
She began her assault in the 200-medley relay, where she joined Lia Foster, Maddie Balish and Roxy Kiessling to take down Punahou’s record from 2007 by more than three seconds with a time of 1:44.72. Pac-Five also broke the record but finished well behind Mau’s Punahou squad.
"We did good as a team," Mau said. "It is a good marker, but there are still some things we have to work on and I am excited to get in the water on Monday and see what we can do."
Mau then entered the water for the 50 free and took down former Punahou swimmer Christel Simms’ mark of 23.86 with a 23.03. She was pushed by ‘Iolani’s Aja Grande, who beat Mau in the preliminaries and also bettered Simms’ standard. Mau broke her own record in the 100 butterfly with a 52.83 time to beat Pac-Five’s Summer Harrison and Grande. Mau’s record from last year in the 200 IM held up easily on Saturday, with ‘Iolani’s Sydney Kimura finishing seven seconds behind it. Mau’s mark in the 200 free held up by more than three seconds over Pac-Five’s Lena Hayakawa.
Mau had Punahou off to a two-second lead in the 200 free relay and it held up until teammate Lia Foster took off early in the third spot and the Buffanblu were disqualified.
Punahou’s Balish broke the record in the 100 breast, beating former Punahou swimmer Brittany Beauchan’s record from 2007 by a full second with a time of 1:03.62. Other winners on the girls side were Foster in the 100 back, Rebecca Walton of Pac-Five in the 500 free, Kelly Fricke of Punahou in the 100 free and Deborah Wen of Punahou in the 1-meter diving.
Ryan Stack of Kamehameha was the big individual winner on the boys side, taking the 200 free and 100 back in addition to contributing to Kamehameha’s relay wins in the 200 medley and 400 free.
"For not being tapered or shaved or rested or anything, I’ll take what came today," Stack said. "Toward the end I could feel a little bit of fading, but that comes with swimming hard for a meet and looking forward to the bigger meets."
The best race on the boys side occurred in the 100 free, where Stack’s record from last year held up by 0.29 seconds. But the guy threatening it was more than a little bit of a surprise and helped the Buffanblu to the team title. Punahou’s Sam Sutherland beat Kamehameha’s Kanoa Kaleoaloha by the slimmest of margins, 46.91 seconds to 46.92. Kaleoaloha was four-tenths of a second faster than Sutherland in the preliminaries.
"I haven’t beat him in almost my entire life," Sutherland said. "Today was different. I felt good going into the water, got off to a strong lead and that carried me home."
Kaleoaloha did take some hardware home, though, winning the 50 free over a trio of Punahou swimmers. Sung Je Le of ‘Iolani won two individual events — the 200 IM and 100 fly. Joey Sisler of Pac-Five won the 1-meter dive, Kaeo Kruse of Kamehameha took the 500 free and Albert Lee of ‘Iolani won the 100 breast.
Sutherland got another important win in the 200 free relay.
